Schar powered through the five boroughs in 1 hour, 48 minutes, 9 seconds, taking the top spot after three straight runner-up finishes in New York. She also won the Boston, London and Berlin marathons this year.

Schar beat her nemesis McFadden by nearly 3 minutes.

“Some feeling just made me attack and attack and attack. Finally, I got away,” Schar said, adding, “I'm still surprised.”

Her ambition for 2017 is a simple one: to start, and finish, her first marathon. For Karen Malinowski, the clock is ticking.
"I'm turning 40 this year, so I figure, why not?" said Malinowski, an attorney from Towson. "I've run seven half-marathons, so...

Tatyana McFadden won the New York City Marathon women’s wheelchair race Sunday to sweep the four major marathons for the fourth straight year, extending her record streak to 17 straight victories.
The 27-year-old U.S. Paralympian and Atholton graduate...

North Harford High alumnus Nick Fransham raced to his first collegiate 8K victory recently in a cross-country meet in Smyrna, Del.
The Mount St. Mary's sophomore won the Delaware State Pre-Conference Run Oct. 15, nipping Darren White of North Carolina...

David Stevenson found a better route from Abingdon to New York City Sunday – one through Anaheim, Calif.In running the Disneyland Half-Marathon in Anaheim, he bettered the qualifying standard for entry to the 2016 New York City Marathon."My goal was to...

Olympics
Marylander McFadden named USOC Female Athlete of the Month
The United States Olympic Committee named Paralympic track and field athlete Tatyana McFadden, who grew up in Clarksville and attended Atholton, Female Athlete of the Month for...

Sgt. 1st Class Joshua Rosenbaum was able to finish three tours of duty — one in Iraq and two in Afghanistan. He was able to finish his bachelor's degree in mathematics, long delayed by military call-ups.
But the 34-year-old U.S. Army reservist found...

The Loper brothers of Bel Air sought a one-two finish at Oriole Park at Camden Yards Saturday. In the fifth annual KidsPeace Trick or Trot 5K, they finished just short of a brotherly sweep, however, with Alex Loper taking second place and Shawn, third.
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Clarksville's Tatyana McFadden won the women's wheelchair division in the New York City Marathon on Sunday, completing her second marathon Grand Slam.
With first-place finishes in London, Boston, Chicago and New York over the past two years, the...

Under Armour has timed the launch of its much-talked-about Speedform Gemini running shoe to the days just before the NYC Marathon.
The Baltimore sports apparel company unveiled the shoe, the latest version of the Speedform Apollo introduced earlier...

Lynne Douglas stood frozen some 100 yards shy of the finish line at the Boston Marathon when the second bomb exploded, bringing last year's race to an abrupt and chaotic end.
Today, the Columbia woman will run to overcome that moment.
"We're running not...

Qualifying for the Boston Marathon was not on Michelle Hollingsworth's radar when she broke into a jog at the start of the Marine Corps Marathon in 2012, but it sure was 3 hours and 36 minutes later.
The 47-year-old hadn't expected to cross the finish...

Darren Thompson and Kevin Hennessey, both of Bel Air, cracked the top-10 of the HAT Run 50K Saturday, crossing the finish line at the Steppingstone Museum in a tie for ninth place.
The two completed the 31-mile trail course side by side in 4 hours, 30...

Runners of the Harford Community College cross-country team set the pace for a record field in the fifth annual Heather L. Hurd 5K Saturday.Roberto Ascenzi, a freshman from Bel Air, led 233 runners over a course on the HCC campus, finishing first in...

An amicable race within a race produced triumph and personal bests for three Bel Air runners in the New York City Marathon Sunday.
Jeff Burger, Kevin Hennessey and Darren Thompson planned and prepared months in advance to break the three-hour mark...

Tatyana McFadden surged to the lead of the New York City Marathon, and mile after mile, waited for a rival to challenge her.
As has been the case all year, however, no one could catch the Clarksville resident. McFadden won the women’s wheelchair race...

On Oct. 13, just before 9:15 a.m., Tatyana McFadden soared across the finish line at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon, just two seconds before the racer behind her, taking the top spot in the women's wheelchair competition and making history.
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